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Once again there's good news for those of us who rage at the evening news, shake our heads at Washington's business-as-usual, or watch as politicians carom helplessly between political crises and sex scandals: Dennis Miller is back with his third installment of hilarious observations, I Rant, Therefore ... more »

Aiming to create a work that capture[s] the language and preserve[s] the culture of hip-hop, [while also serving] as a tool for education, New York City-based journalist Westbrook here offers a hoptionary defining roughly 2500 terms. The book is divided into three sections: slang to standard English ... more »

I had a great time reading Flunky...a good, ribald academic comedy. Tony Award winner Mark Medoff, author of Children of A Lesser God and The Homage. Money is oil to dignity's water. So muses John Deyme, the eager bumbler of Flunky . Fully ambitious and fully talentless, John is determined to impress ... more »

In 1961, just as NASA launched its first man into space, a group of women underwent secret testing in the hopes of becoming America's first female astronauts. They passed the same battery of tests at the legendary Lovelace Foundation as did the Mercury 7 astronauts, but they were summarily dismissed ... more »

The Emmy Award-winning host of Court TV's Catherine Cried Live describes an American legal system dangerously out of control-- and finds the lawyers guilty as charged. As a child, Catherine Crier was enchanted by film portrayals of crusading lawyers like Clarence Darrow and Atticus Finch. As a district ... more »

Few comics make the transition from stage to page as smoothly or successfully as George Carlin. Brain Droppings spent a total of 40 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and this new one is certain to tickle even more ribs (and rattle a few more cages) with its characteristically ironic take on ... more »

A bestselling, Harvard-bred humorist plans to knock out a slapdash, quick-buck parody of a wildly successful, head-spinning, clue-laden thriller in a flagrant attempt to cash in on the publishing sensation of the decade, but the tousle-haired satirist's sleazy scheme goes awry when his two heroes -- ... more »

Anyone can slay a dragon. Well, provided they are dragonslayers, which Colson isn't. But even clerks from photocopy shops can have heroic qualities, and even the very, very old can learn new tricks.... more » more »

The Lessons of Terror is so earnest, so well informed and so outrageous...that almost any reader will find something to love and something that will make you want to throw the book across the room. It is, in short, pure Carr. Newsweek After the deadly attacks against the United States, many Americans ... more »

Bear Facts is the product of Mike Burke, who's parents, and probably most of the known universe, sincerely wish he'd done something else with his life. It's a single panel cartoon, as I can't afford to buy much ink, and the situations and characters are different every day, making it much easier to copy ... more »

Have you ever had one of those days when everything just seems to go ? right? Even when it's wrong? Primordial Chili is a laugh-out-loud thrill-ride of culinary perfection, taken to cosmic proportions. The planets align, the gods speak, and supper turns out pretty good, too. more »